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i don't condone calling president obama hitler and painting swastikas on signs at town halls. the extremism in rhetoric and tactics and outlandish claims that has been displayed by anti-health reform protesters this summer appears to be causing some recoil on the right right now. congresswoman rogers expressing her disapproval of the nazism claims, lobbying and law firm dla piper separating from its longtime marquee adviser dick armey and therefore from freedomworks, the organization promoting the protests. even the very conservative pr firm shirley & bannister threatening to sue me for inadvertently exaggerating their relationship to another promoter of the protests. but even as these cracks appearing among republicans, among conservatives over how the anti-health reform fight is being waged, i challenge you to name a single republican member of congress who says he or she is looking forward or even leaning toward voting for health reform. there is one man at least who has said that. he is congressman joseph gao of louisiana. he told his constituents at a fairly civil town ha
i don't condone calling president obama hitler and painting swastikas on signs at town halls. the extremism in rhetoric and tactics and outlandish claims that has been displayed by anti-health reform protesters this summer appears to be causing some recoil on the right right now. congresswoman rogers expressing her disapproval of the nazism claims, lobbying and law firm dla piper separating from its longtime marquee adviser dick armey and therefore from freedomworks, the organization promoting...
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sean: swastikas, tim mcvey and kkk. i see grand mothers. i see stay at home moms like katy and veterans and kids in wheelchairs. >> they are so wrong on this. and they are going to figure this out, sean, that wildly insulting ordinary, honest, decent, hard-working american people this way is not even smart politics. this is a really big mistake on their part. they are going to pay a big price. i'm shocked it's taking them this long. sean: i am, too. one last question. as the republicans now move forward with this, because the democrats have all the power. they can pass this bill. they are even talking about a nuclear option. if they can't get their 60-vote filibuster number in the senate or filibuster-proof number. if they ram this down america's throats. what will be the political consequences for the democratic party? >> a huge backlash against them. you know, you don't make profound, huge changes to such a large segment of our economy and do it in a strictly partisan fashion, ignoring the energy and intensity and passion of very nearly,
sean: swastikas, tim mcvey and kkk. i see grand mothers. i see stay at home moms like katy and veterans and kids in wheelchairs. >> they are so wrong on this. and they are going to figure this out, sean, that wildly insulting ordinary, honest, decent, hard-working american people this way is not even smart politics. this is a really big mistake on their part. they are going to pay a big price. i'm shocked it's taking them this long. sean: i am, too. one last question. as the republicans...
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nancy pelosi talked about swastikas. i think she is referring to one sign on a rally where a red line was through a swastika saying we don't want socialized, whatever. i think their response to the critics, it's fueling the critics here. >> well, in some ways it is. but, remember, it's not about the people who are actually at the meetings. the people who go to the meetings, protesting, their strategy is to get media attention. this is really political fever. laura: they care, right? you are not saying they don't care. a lot of these people are over 65. when obama's group organizing for america and the sciu get their big groups in florida last night or in michigan, i mean, they are organizing people. so what if people on the internet show up at these town hall meetings? what's good for the goose is good for the gander. >> right. so both sides right now are taking it to the streets. that's what we are seeing this august. american politics taken to the street. laura: i love it. >> in ways we haven't seen in generations. it'
nancy pelosi talked about swastikas. i think she is referring to one sign on a rally where a red line was through a swastika saying we don't want socialized, whatever. i think their response to the critics, it's fueling the critics here. >> well, in some ways it is. but, remember, it's not about the people who are actually at the meetings. the people who go to the meetings, protesting, their strategy is to get media attention. this is really political fever. laura: they care, right? you...
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i swastika was paint odd a science outside his suburban atlanta office. the congressman said he's gotten hate mail, death threats and offensive faxes since the public debate on health care reform began. he still plans to host the town hall meeting saturday and said he's working to find common ground for people on both sides of the health care debate. >>> could be just a matter of time before another homegrown attack like the oklahoma city bombing happens in the u.s., according to southern poverty law center. right wing militia the are popping up after a decade of being on the decline. 50 now groups have emerged in less than two years. >>> police in texas have arrested a u.s. soldier who they say was working as a hitman for a mexican drug cartel. 18-year-old private was one of three men arrested monday in el pa paso. the suspect in a shooting death of a member of the cartel working as an informant for the u.s. >>> emergency crews rushed to the scene of a downed plane outside phoenix today. officials say the aircraft was engaged in touch and go landing oper
i swastika was paint odd a science outside his suburban atlanta office. the congressman said he's gotten hate mail, death threats and offensive faxes since the public debate on health care reform began. he still plans to host the town hall meeting saturday and said he's working to find common ground for people on both sides of the health care debate. >>> could be just a matter of time before another homegrown attack like the oklahoma city bombing happens in the u.s., according to...
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i would suggest that swastikas on the signs of members of congress' front door is probably a distraction. but what sheila jackson lee has done is not because sheila jackson lee has a consistent history of serving her constituents. >> okay. >> and i served that lady by having a town hall meeting that she could come to in the middle of the day. >> i get it. >> i look forward to working with you. >> we are out of time. congresswoman, very courageous of you to come on. i know it's a difficult thing. wolf blitzer is standing by. he, too, will be covering stories like this in "the situation room." >>> rick, thank you. happening now, something the white house is doing raising some eyebrows out there. it involves health care reform and possibly your e-mail inbox. >>> a convicted bomber seeks mercy. he's in prison for a notorious terrorist act, the bombing of pan am flight 103, killing a lot of americans. now outrage. he may soon be set free after serving only about eight years. >>> and plane down. it ditches in the middle of the sea, and a pilot stands on the plane as it sinks. you might not bel
i would suggest that swastikas on the signs of members of congress' front door is probably a distraction. but what sheila jackson lee has done is not because sheila jackson lee has a consistent history of serving her constituents. >> okay. >> and i served that lady by having a town hall meeting that she could come to in the middle of the day. >> i get it. >> i look forward to working with you. >> we are out of time. congresswoman, very courageous of you to come on....
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nancy pelosi saying these people wear swastikas and other calling nazis and smears and president obama saying he is going to fight them. what happened to joe the plumber during the campaign where he was investigated personally by this high ranking democratic who didn't like what he said. bill: she got fired finally. >> the white house reaching out to people saying hey if your neighbors are saying something about health care, send us their complaintwise email. bill: there is one good thing about this thing that hemmer may go to jail. [ laughter ] bill: actually sent the email that hemmer was complaining. might go to prison. >> hemmer wasn't really complaining. bill: cop in ohio, minor story. interesting. his wife podsed in playboy. >> yes. hot housewives 2008. bill: since that harassment his life has been a living hell because the city is going after him, right? >> yeah. i got one piece of advice for officer fippin. take it up with the mrs. he is particular ticked off. filed intentional emotional distress clan. his wife has joins him in that complaint saying after i posed in ploy boy, -
nancy pelosi saying these people wear swastikas and other calling nazis and smears and president obama saying he is going to fight them. what happened to joe the plumber during the campaign where he was investigated personally by this high ranking democratic who didn't like what he said. bill: she got fired finally. >> the white house reaching out to people saying hey if your neighbors are saying something about health care, send us their complaintwise email. bill: there is one good thing...
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republican operatives who are helping to sort of fuel this stuff and, secondly, you start to see the swastikas and the nazi comparisons. we know that threats to president obama are up by like 400% compared to the bush administration. is this putting our president in some sort of danger because of some wacko that will see this stuff and say, oh, yes, it's fas simple and the way we dealt with hitler was to kill him so let's do this with our president. >> it only took one person to shoot ronald reagan and jack kennedy and so on but i think the secret service can be trusted to protect the president. it does discredit the people who are using such extreme measures to achieve an objective which is really corporate profit. many of them, not all of them, but many of them are being driven by these industries making billions of dollars off the current system so they can afford to pay the lobbyists who organize this allegedly grassroots effort which much of it is really being organized out of washington. i think the people who belong in those town hall meetings, who live in those neighborhoods will under
republican operatives who are helping to sort of fuel this stuff and, secondly, you start to see the swastikas and the nazi comparisons. we know that threats to president obama are up by like 400% compared to the bush administration. is this putting our president in some sort of danger because of some wacko that will see this stuff and say, oh, yes, it's fas simple and the way we dealt with hitler was to kill him so let's do this with our president. >> it only took one person to shoot...
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. >> the obama health care logo is damn close to a nazi swastika logo. >> reporter: and the internet is full of references to the president as hitler or as a racist. >> this guy is i believe a racist. >> reporter: to date the secret service has disrupted at least three different assassation plots tied to white supremacist groups so there is serious concern this week in new hampshire when a man stood across the street from a presidential town hall meeting with his gun on full and legal display. >> it's clearly nerve-racking when he's out in the open. i think they really do fear that something could happen to him. >> reporter: and in a new report, southern poverty law center says that since obama took office, there has been a sharp growth in the so-called militia groups, the kind that helped spawn a wave of domestic terrorism in the 1990s. ♪ >> reporter: now they use youtube, rock music and the internet to recruit new members and spread their words of hate and fear including this one from the supposed leader of the ohio militia. >> america, it's your wake-up call. >> i think that the
. >> the obama health care logo is damn close to a nazi swastika logo. >> reporter: and the internet is full of references to the president as hitler or as a racist. >> this guy is i believe a racist. >> reporter: to date the secret service has disrupted at least three different assassation plots tied to white supremacist groups so there is serious concern this week in new hampshire when a man stood across the street from a presidential town hall meeting with his gun on...
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. >> you will find that the obama health care logo is damn close to a nazi swastika logo. >> he is comparing this symbol of the third reich to this obama logo. does this hurt those fighting for health care reform? >> i think it is an almost perfect convergence of interest between president obama and rush limbaugh. what's good for one is good for the other. they have a sim biotic relationship. the republican party and responsible conservatism is the victim. there are so many things wrong with the plan coming through the house. there are some interesting possibilities in the plan emerging from the senate's finance committee. >> those are strong words. you have to admit by any definition of the heated rhetoric over this debate. >> i am going to site michael godwin's laws. he is one of the pioneers of internet law and privacy. his law is this,in any debate, when somebody mentions a hitler or nazi analogy, that person loses the debate. it has happened on the left. i remember some anonymous person submitted an ad for move-on.org to compare president bush to ad do adolf hitler. david frum has been
. >> you will find that the obama health care logo is damn close to a nazi swastika logo. >> he is comparing this symbol of the third reich to this obama logo. does this hurt those fighting for health care reform? >> i think it is an almost perfect convergence of interest between president obama and rush limbaugh. what's good for one is good for the other. they have a sim biotic relationship. the republican party and responsible conservatism is the victim. there are so many...
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some other things out there, some swastikas painted on office doors. >> her microphone was cut or we couldn't hear that. >> we couldn't hear her after her initial question. who knows what happened there. but he did say, he answered a lot of questions, there for a couple of hours, but that one particular person didn't rub him the right way. >> no. >> he let it be known. >> arguing with his dining room table. wow. >> the health care reform debate continues. our conversation here continues as well. talking about public options. >> yes. what would that look like? cnn's jim acosta reports, the answer may be found in massachusetts. >> good to see you. >> reporter: if washington wants to reform health care with bipartisan support, consider what former republican presidential candidate mitt romney did as governor in democratic massachusetts. >> you don't have to have a public option. you don't have to have government get in the insurance business to make it work. >> reporter: three years after enacting its own version of reform, massachusetts now has near universal coverage. taxpayer watchdo
some other things out there, some swastikas painted on office doors. >> her microphone was cut or we couldn't hear that. >> we couldn't hear her after her initial question. who knows what happened there. but he did say, he answered a lot of questions, there for a couple of hours, but that one particular person didn't rub him the right way. >> no. >> he let it be known. >> arguing with his dining room table. wow. >> the health care reform debate continues. our...
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. >> the obama health care logo is damn close to a nazi swastika logo. >> reporter: to encourage attend, conservative organizers acknowledge they sent e-mail alerts to members but argue the anger is real. >> i think that the politicians should be careful about so easily dismissing this many people showing up and participating in the process. >> reporter: virginia democrat jim moran expects to get an earful. >> funny to be opposed. i don't think it's fine to come in with the objective of disrupting the town hall meetings. >> reporter: for "today," kelly o'donnell, nbc news, washington. >>> for more on the political impact of all of this let's turn to john horowitz, chief washington kornt for cnbc. john, good morning. >> hey, jenna. >> with all the shoving and yells at all the town halls it's hard to get a sense of which side is being heard. how big of an impact will this have on congress when they return in september to talk about health care again? >> i suspect the greatest impact is going to be the further polarize the two political parties making it more difficult for bipartisan negot
. >> the obama health care logo is damn close to a nazi swastika logo. >> reporter: to encourage attend, conservative organizers acknowledge they sent e-mail alerts to members but argue the anger is real. >> i think that the politicians should be careful about so easily dismissing this many people showing up and participating in the process. >> reporter: virginia democrat jim moran expects to get an earful. >> funny to be opposed. i don't think it's fine to come in...
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. >> reporter: more extreme examples included a swastika painted outside congressman david scott's georgia office. president obama pushed back against the false charge that health care reform proposals would create a death panel to ration care and kill off seniors. >> the intention of the members of congress was to give people more information so that they could handle issues of end of life care when they're ready on their own terms. >> reporter: the white house insisted their audience was not screened but they were awfully friendly compared to the protesters out side and elsewhere. the president practically begged to be booed. >> somebody here who has a concern abouout health care tha has been raid or s skekeicical suspicious and wants to make sure -- i don't want people t thini hahave a bunch of plants in here. >> reporter: the president used the opportunity of his town hal meeting to correct the record but he misisstatements, udg the aseshgs that aarndorsed the legislation,n, the gupup s they had e endorse n nod billt all. >> jake, thank you. matthew do, polititical alyst workrked foror
. >> reporter: more extreme examples included a swastika painted outside congressman david scott's georgia office. president obama pushed back against the false charge that health care reform proposals would create a death panel to ration care and kill off seniors. >> the intention of the members of congress was to give people more information so that they could handle issues of end of life care when they're ready on their own terms. >> reporter: the white house insisted their...
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a swastika was also painted on david scott's office sign after he argued with a doctor at a town hall meeting. finally, at a town hall yesterday, congressman barney frank lashed out at a woman. she was speaking to him while holding a poster that showed president obama's face defaced with a hitler mustache. let's listen. >> why do you continue to support a nazi policy as obama has expressly supported this policy? why are you supporting it? >> lady, when you ask me that question, i am going to revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question. on what planet do you spend most of your time? >> now, that woman is not alone. this israeli man seemed to be near tears when a woman threw out hitler's name as he was being interviewed. >> you know, we just talk, but we don't respect them -- >> hail hitler! >> the guys -- did you hear what she say to a jew? hail hitler? i'm a jew. you're telling me hail hitler? shame of you! shame of you! >> look, it should go without saying that there is just no legitimate basis between with a comparison between a murderer and a president cam
a swastika was also painted on david scott's office sign after he argued with a doctor at a town hall meeting. finally, at a town hall yesterday, congressman barney frank lashed out at a woman. she was speaking to him while holding a poster that showed president obama's face defaced with a hitler mustache. let's listen. >> why do you continue to support a nazi policy as obama has expressly supported this policy? why are you supporting it? >> lady, when you ask me that question, i am...
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however, what we have started to see is scary tactics like people character swastikas at rallies, and there was a democratic congressman in maryland who was hung in effigy. that is the hate that doesn't move us toward solutions. that is the hate that polarizes our country. we are now in a situation where people have got to sit down, understand the plan on the table, and come to solutions. because too many working and middle class americans are being hurt every day by the healthcare crisis. host: one last call from lake zurich, illinois. india line. bob. caller: you know david walker former comptroller of the office of government accountability, you heard what he has been saying about the unfunded liability of social security, medicare, medicaid. are you familiar with david walker, the former comptroller of the office of government accountability who has been talking about the unfunded liabilities of social security, medicare, medicaid and the federal pensions? are you familiar with him? guest: i'm familiar but not -- caller: there are approximately $50 trillion to $60 trillion offen f
however, what we have started to see is scary tactics like people character swastikas at rallies, and there was a democratic congressman in maryland who was hung in effigy. that is the hate that doesn't move us toward solutions. that is the hate that polarizes our country. we are now in a situation where people have got to sit down, understand the plan on the table, and come to solutions. because too many working and middle class americans are being hurt every day by the healthcare crisis....